@article {4849,
	title = {A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis},
	volume = {373},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {54},
	abstract = {Between 2011 and 2013, three breeders of variegated squirrels (Sciurus variegatoides) had encephalitis with similar clinical signs and died 2 to 4 months after onset of the clinical symptoms. With the use of a metagenomic approach that incorporated next-generation sequencing and real-time reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), the presence of a previously unknown bornavirus was detected in a contact squirrel and in brain samples from the three patients. Phylogenetic analyses showed that this virus, tentatively named variegated squirrel 1 bornavirus (VSBV-1), forms a lineage separate from that of the known bornavirus species. (Funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture [Germany] and others.).},
	doi = {10.1056/NEJMoa1415627},
	author = {Hoffmann, B and Tappe, D and H{\"o}per, D and Herden, C and Boldt, A and Mawrin, C and Niederstra{\ss}er, O and M{\"u}ller, T and Jenckel, M and van der Grinten, E and Lutter, C and Abendroth, B and Teifke, JP and Cadar, D and Schmidt-Chanasit, J and Ulrich, RG and Beer, M}
}
